[ They might not have known much about microbiology, but they certainly knew that blankets, clothes and bedding were infectious. Innoculations against smallpox were practiced long before Pasteur. ]
Bull.. You missed the point.. I suppose Ladulum(mercury and opium) was not given (as a cure) until almost 1900 by the medical community.. You give the medical community way too much credit for the those times.. Herbal cures saved far more than the "doctors" did.. As is witnessed by all the medicines derived from old medincal herbs we use TODAY,,,
Did I say, ALMOST ALL MODERN MEDICINES, ah! I see I did..
You really don't what the hell you're talking about. Smallpox innoculations were devised centuries before Pasteur. Jenner's breakthrough using coxpox to innoculate against smallpox happened in 1796. That is one hundred years before Coulter claimed such knowledge was known. The Arabs, Turks and Chinese were innoculating against smallpox long, long before Europeans.
Coulter was talking out her ass. Something she does far too frequently to be taken seriously.